Music:
Beach Boys, Beatles, Elvis, Big Star, the Sonics, the Lazy Smoke, Sam Cooke, anything Greg Cartwright, anything Bob Seger, Falcons, Flamingos, Wilson Pickett, Bo Diddley, Buck Owens, the Remains, Carl & the Passions, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Grass Roots, Leslie Gore, Steely Dan, Coasters, Nick Lowe, the Association, the Lovin' Spoonful, Cheap Trick, Jackie DeShannon, Jackie Wilson, Chad & Jeremy, Peter & Gordon, Sly and the Family Stone, Byrds, Fleetwood Mac, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, the Small Faces, the Faces, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Connie Francis, Leslie Gore, Chuck Berry, Dusty Springfield, Box Tops, Everly Brothers, the Equals, the Yardbirds, the Raspberries, the Mummies, Hall & Oats, the Zombies, Allen Toussaint, Carl Perkins, Ike & Tina Turner, PP Arnold, the Guess Who, the Hollies, Irma Thomas, the Turtles, Flamin Groovies, Moody Blues, the Nerves, Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas Quintet, Thin Lizzy, the Band, Curtis Mayfield, the Impressions, Shangri-La's, the Ronettes, the Marvelletes, Martha & the Vandellas, the Nazz, Chiffons, Shirelles, old r&b and soul, oldies, pretty harmonies, surf groups, girl groups, jazz, bluegrass, rockabilly, my friends' bands etc etc etc!
Movies:
FILM NOIR! and - the girl can't help it, high school confidential, once upon a time in the west, fast times at ridgemont high, spaghetti westerns, all about eve, rita, switchblade sisters, a hard day's night, raising arizona, two lane blacktop, the jerk, mi vida loca, last picture show, anchorman, lone wolf and cub, grease, the last waltz, the muppet movie, caddyshack, zombie/horror/anything scary and/or gross especially if it's based on a true story
Television:
the simpsons, mr show, seinfeld, america's funniest home videos, planet's funniest animals, laverne & shirley, freaks & geeks, etc etc etc i watch a lot of tv
Books:
california crime book, new york crime book, murder can be fun, hollywood death scenes, hollywood book of death, hollywood book of scandal, hollywood babylon, rock n roll babylon, illustrated crime, weegee photo books, pied piper of tucson, bury my heart at wounded knee, helter skelter, in cold blood, zodiac, hillside stranglers, valley of the dolls, ghosts of the golden west, profiles in courage, hemingway, ellroy, fante, sedaris, dashiell hammett, raymond chandler, jim thompson, a confederacy of dunces, geek love, old paperbacks of all sorts, horror
Heroes:
my brothers and sisters